Search crawler activity question...
When checking on your item statistics,is it better to keep your search crawler activity on or off?

When I include it, I get a bunch of bot views per day for a large number of my items but when it’s turned off,views are only 1-5 per day.
I advertise a lot on pinterest and facebook but was just wondering if keeping the creepy crawler off was limiting my items from being seen.
Tried to find information in the help section but it was very limited.
Thanks in advance for taking the time out of your busy day to answer this post…Mary

asked almost 9 years ago

1 Answer

The crawler activity is not controlled by you removing it in your items stats, that is just for your information. It is an automatic process that all the search engines do to index information on the web.

answered almost 9 years ago

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maggie59 says: July 25, 2015

Thanks ccmom!

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